Marijuana Blog

Setting up a blog that talks about your lifestyle as a cannabis enthusiast can have tremendous benefits for your career or hobby. Building your platform through a blog to voice your advocacy, business, and opinion about marijuana can help you establish yourself as an authority in the cannabis community.

A cannabis blog can help you network with like-minded people. It can help you land important work or activities within the cannabis industry. It opens up the channel for you to find other marijuana enthusiasts and experts. It allows you to develop and build a supportive community with members from all backgrounds and places. If you are a writer, starting a blog is an excellent way to build your skills further.

However, possibly, one of the most significant benefits of establishing a log for cannabis use is opening up the community to the general people. The legalization of marijuana is an ongoing process, and not all areas of the country have actually legalized the use of it for recreation and even medical purposes. Through a cannabis blog, you can easily advocate for this great cause of removing the prohibition of marijuana use.

Stories in your blogs, from understanding different types of weeds to learning about the benefits of marijuana for people with autism, can help people outside of the cannabis community understand the importance of legalizing marijuana.

If you are thinking about starting a blog for marijuana, I am 100% behind you. To help you begin, here are 5 essential steps to starting a marijuana blog.

STEP 1: CHOOSE A VERY SPECIFIC BLOG TOPIC TO FOCUS ON

The topic of marijuana is massive. Focusing on one specific topic will help you organize your thoughts. Many people think that they have to cover everything cannabis and cannabis use. But no. In marketing, no one will buy from you if you try to sell to everyone. Identify your personal interests and your personal goals. This will help you identify a cannabis niche for which you have passion and expertise. Once you find this, you can start planning the subtopics to cover.

A good example is focusing on marijuana and the environment. A marijuana lifestyle is often linked with an environmentally conscious lifestyle. You may write topics about how marijuana culture and lifestyle are much greener and more environmentally friendly. You may cover organic ways in which marijuana is farmed.


STEP 2: GET A BLOG DOMAIN AND/OR REGISTER IN A BLOGGING PLATFORM

You have two basic choices for a blogging platform – free and paid. With free blogging platforms such as WordPress, Blogger, and Tumblr you do not have to consider paying annually for your blog. However, the downside would be being unable to choose a specific blog domain for your blog. If you choose Free WordPress as a blogging platform, you will also have no capacity to edit the design of your blog.

If you buy a domain name, you can use paid WordPress or Joomla as your blog platform. Both are open source, so you can easily tweak your design. If you need to improve designing web pages, you can try the available themes.

STEP3: PLAN AND WRITE YOUR CONTENT

At the initial stage, you must ensure that you have at least 15 blog posts ready for publication. You do not have to publish all of them at the same time. However, upon your launch, ensure your blog has at least three posts your readers can read. These are the ABOUT page, CONTACT PAGE, and the first article. The About Page will explain to your readers who you are and why your blog exists. You can summarize your advocacies and even why you started a blog. Another blog post is the contact, which will include your business email and the social media platforms you use for your blog. The third one is the first article. You may use this to welcome your readers or dive into the issues you want to tackle.

Your readership will gauge your seriousness with your first posts. After this, you need to regularly follow up with more posts. This is why you must have at least 15 articles ready for posting. This way, you do not have to think about what articles to write the next day. You now have 15 articles prepared for publication.

As you go along with blogging, make it your habit to write a month's worth of blog posts in advance. You may schedule specific dates and times to write your blog posts for the following month. This way. You have ample time to check your grammar, sources, and facts, as well as to clean up the points of view of your article. This will also ensure that you have a steady supply of articles. Also, if you cannot write because you fell sick or have been busy, you ensure you have a constant supply of blog posts.

STEP 4: LAUNCH YOUR BLOG

Before launching your blog, make sure to stay active online on different marijuana forums and social media pages. At least for a month, you should maintain a fabulous online presence so you can gain an online following. Therefore, when you launch your blog, you can announce to the online forums and social media pages that you follow your blog. You can bring your readers from these pages to your websites. Furthermore, linking your blog through these sites and social media pages will also bring traffic to your blog. Even people who are just lurking will click them to check you out.

STEP 5: BUILD AN ONLINE COMMUNITY WITH YOUR READERS, FOLLOWERS AND OTHER BLOGGERS

Your blog is not an island. Build a community of readers and followers. Link to other like-minded blogs and comment on them. Be active on social media and interact with people. Reply to comments that people leave on your website.

Furthermore, you can also guest write on other people's websites. You may also host other people’s writing. Collaboration can be done, or you can even start a vlog on YouTube to bring traffic to your site.

Blogging is a self-expression. It is an excellent place for marijuana enthusiasts such as yourself to open up about their advocacies. It will help influence people in so many positive ways. If you plan to start a marijuana blog, hopefully, this article will help you somehow.